Improved hoofing composition



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WI LLIAM VAN DYKE AND WILLIAM W'. EASTWICK, OF KEOKUK, IO WA. Letters Patent No. 68,264, dated August 27, 1867.

IMPROVED ROOFING COMPOSITION.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM VAN DYKE and WILLIAM W.EASTWICK, of Keokuk, in the county of Lee, and State of Iowa, have invented a. new and improved Roofing Paint; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The object of this invention is to material as will render it fire-proof an described. 7

The following-named ingredients, when mixed together in the in question: one part of lime; one part of sand; one part of hul part'of Roman cement; one small part of hair.

These ingredients are well mixed in about the proportions mentioned, and applied in a suitable manner to a roof or other surface, after which a coat of common paint. is applied to it, which completes the work.

While we prefer to adopt the proportions of the substances, as above described, we do not co-nfine'ourselves to these exact proportions, as they may be varied without changing the principle or good qualities of the paint.

Having described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A fire and water-proof paint, which is composed of the several substances mixed together in about the proportions described.

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WILLIAM VAN DYKE, WM. W. EASTWIOK.

Witnesses to WILLIAM VAN Drmss signature:

EDWD. MUMM, ERIE J. LEECH.

Witnesses to WILLIAM W. EAsTwIoKs signature:

WM. ANDRE, F.' W. A. GEMMER, 

